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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28
ATTACK ON DIR. RUTHERFORD

The New Orleans States, of recent date,
contains long, weak, but bitter attack on
State Health Officer Rutherford, of Texas.
OF course, the cause of the papers wrath
is DR.. Rutherford's prompt shutting down
against the Crescent city because
of its five days quarantine against
refugees from yellow fever at
Key West. Everybody in Texas, who re-
members the great and terrible cpl lemic
of 1867, knows that cases have been taken
down eighteen to twenty days after ex-
posure to the contagion. A statement to
that effect is made by the late DR.. Green
vile Dowell, of Galveston, in his work on
yellow fever. All who have had practical
experience with yellow fever in Texas, or
elsewhere, know that five days detention
is no quarantine at all. Nobody, probably,
is better aware of this than the editor of
the States himself.
Just so with the fumigation and killing
of the microbes of yellow fever in ships
cargoes by shutting down the matches and
pumping in certain gases. The States
editor, as we'll as every doctor, knows the
the destruction of the microbe by this
means has never been proven; that it is,
in fact, merely tentative, and, like the
five DAYS uuarantine seryas Wholesale
dealers in New Orleans and elsewhere to
hoodwink the general public
In a scientific point of view DIR. Ruther-
ford's position cannot be assailed, except
by boards of health who are the mere
automatons of the wholesale trade rather
than the conservators of the public health.
When DR., Rutherford was appointed
by Gov. Ross it was not to look after the
Interests or to consult the wishes of the
importers and wholesale dealers of New
Orleans, but to keep yellow fever out of
Texas, and preserve the health of cities
on our seaboard subject to the saffron
scourge. This DIR. Rutherford is, with his
accustomed pluck and energy, doing. And
we beg TO assure our New Orleans contem.
porary his course-so far as we KNOWS
not only fully endorsed by Gov. Ross, but
also by the entire people from the Sabine
to the Rio Grande.
! As to the States charge, that DIR. Ruth
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The taxable wealth of Texas, at var
The rolls for 1887 may be put down {

The rolls for 1887 may be put down at
$700O00,000. Thus, in fifteen years,
we have trebled our prop
erty values, and in the last
six years doubled our wealth. At this
rate, and without any change in state
policy, we shall, IN 1890, be worth over a
thousand millions, and rank with Cali
fornia, Michigan, Missouri and other rich
northern and western states. The above
figures show our growth in wealth has
been absolutely phenomenal, and surpas-
ses the history of any other state.
Then, again, as to population. The
census of 1880 gave Texas population
of 100000. The scholastic census, just
published by Superintendent Cooper,
aggregating 100000 children within the
school ages, according to the proportion
known to prevail, indicates population
of over 100000, or an increase of over
one million within the last seven years.
Other things have gone on booming in the
same ratio. In the period mentioned a
large number of new counties have been
opened. Hardly less than one hundred
new towns have sprung up out of the
prairie or in the piney wholesome of
them now having not merely hundreds,
but thousands of population; churches
and school houses by the score have gone
up, both aiding in making the people of
Texas to-day one of the most moral, vir-
tuous, brave and contented people on the
North American continent.
Who will dare gainsay the above? Texas
is growing great and rich. Soon the
Yankees of the futile stripe, instead of
abusing us, will be bending the suppliant
knee in fawning sycophancy to the Empire
State of the South.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28
DEATH OF r. VI. r. HUNTER

One of the most distinguished and, in
his day, able statesmen this country has
ever produced, has passed away. Many
people remember the time when the name
of r. NJ. I. Hunter, of Virginia, was a
tower of strength. In lS49 Mr.. Hunter
occupied the responsible position of chair
man of the finance committee in the
United States senate-which he held till
the opening of the civil war. As secre,
tary of state for President Davis, and
member of the Confederate congress,
Mr.. Hunter played leading role in the
great and bloody drama. The deceased
statesman was a member of the Confed-
crate peace commission, which met Presi-
dent Lincoln, in Hampton Roads, towards
the close OF the war, and which, probably,
would have ended the struggle and saved
the south at least moiety of her slave
property, had not President Davis inter
posed and continued the war. Mr.. Hunt =
er's name will go down to history along
with the great and distinguished men
thrown 20 the surface by astupendous and
dangerous revolution.
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Mr., Finch's Address.
Rooms OF STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, I
WACO, July 20, 1887.

Rooms OF STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
WACO, July 20, 1887.
A week or ten days ago 1 caused to be
published as campaign matter an address
from John B. Finch, chairman of the
national prohibition committee, calling
upon all prohibitionists to begin their Or
ganization now for the campaign of 1888,
and to eschew all deals or alliances with
the old whisky parties. This address has
been extensively published and circulated
throughout the northern states, and was
taken from northern paper. Its anthem
ITCHY has never, to my knowledge, been
denied by Mr.. Finch, and yet the prohibi-
ton papers IN Texas are denouncing it as
forgery. 1 have every evidence of its
genuineness, bat in order to do no man or
cause injustice l call upon Mr.. Finch to
deny in person and over his own sigma
ture that he wrote and promulgated that
address. If he will do this, will cheer
fully make all proper amends, but until
he does our friends will have no hesita-
ton in treating it as genuine.
GEORGE CLARK.
Chairman.
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SENTIMENTS DON'T NECESSARILY GROW

1t is a fayorite cry of the prohibitionists,
in this campaign, that prohibition has
come to stay, meaning thereby that should
their cause be defeated in August, the
sentiment is here to stay and will continue
to grow in strength until it is strong
enough to carry at the polls. That the
sentiment is here, is certain, but it by no
means follows that it will gather strength
with each year. There is a republican
spectacle number of people, and it will
doubtless be here, next year and the year
following, but there are no very decided
symptoms on the surface that it is grow
ing as the years roll by, or that in our day
and generation, at least, it will ever hurt
the democratic party. The presence of a
sentiment in a community argues nothing
for its success, for the world is full of
vagaries and isms, each. having
its band of ardent champions.
fully convinced that it is the one great
reform demanded by the race, and is sure
to win in time. The only way the pro-
hibition craze will ever get into power in
Texas is by disrupting the democratic
party, and when the thoughtful democrat
comes to cast his vote in August, and re-
fleets that the triumph of prohibition
means the introduction OF feuds and fac
tions into the old party that may rend it
in pieces and transfer his state to the old
and hated enemy, he will very likely do
some solemn thinking, and in the end
cast the vote that he knows will certainly
have no tendency to emasculate the dem
ocratic party.
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erford is standing in with the Gould roads
to shut up the gulf ports the editor
should know that the interests of these
roads lie rather in open than in closed
gulf ports. If he is familiar with the
Gallant determined and successful fight
made by DR.. Rutherford against the
combined power of railroads and whole
sale merchants of New Orleans and Gal
weston some ten years ago, he should
know that the present health officer of
Texas is a man who can neither be bullied
nor bought. He suits the people OF
Texas. That he doesn't suit our New Or
leans friends is matter of small moment
on this sides the Sabine.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28
AUSTIN TO THE FRONT.

The attention of every man interested
in Austin is directed to the al ticle in our
local columns to-day setting forth the
plan for the Inauguration and man
agement of great interstate drill to be
held in this city for a week during the
month of May, 1888. 1t is hardly neces-
sary for THE STATESMAN to say that it
endorses the proposed enterprise most
heartily, for The STATESMAN in and
out of season endeayors always to foster
every undertaking that is for the welfare
of our Capital city. The STATESMAN can
assure our business men that an interstate
drill in Austin next May, in connection
with the dedication of our new state house,
would attract at least twenty thousand
visitors to this city during encampment
week. Let us throw aside all petty preju-
dices and small obstacles, and, putting
our shoulders to the wheel, move for
ward as ole man, with a mighty
effort and make the proposed interstate
drill and dedication of our new state house
the grandest and most imposing military
and civic event that has ever occurred in
the history of Texas. Words are numer-
Gus; actions are far more to the point.
Men of Austin, step up and take stock in
this most commendable undertaking-one
that you will feel proud of all your lives.
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these missionaries of the DEVILS religion
with their lives. There is no doubt that,
within few years, the apostles of Salt
Lake-preachers of all that is vile and
depraved, will be able to bid defiance to
public opinion in other states besides
poor old Georgia. Mormonism is founded
on the claim of Joe Smith, like Mo-
manned, to divine revelation in the
book of Mormon. 1t was like the pre-
tensions of Mohammed, monstrous
falsehood. But the very impossibility of
the story gathered converts among the
ignorant, and especially the women, al
ways the most easily gulled, until to-day
the brazen imposture has risen to the
dignity of a new religion, whose converts
are drawn not only from such places as
Georgia, but the countries of Europe.
Like noxious and poisonous plant, it
cannot be crushed out. 1t seems strength
ened by the very efforts to overthrow it,
and to-day Mormonism is quietly but
gradually spreading in the west, from
Utah as center. Originally the product
of Yankee brain, it is now standing
menace to the morals of the people, to
the purity of their homes and of their
daughters. If not destroyed, root and
branch, and that soon, the Mormon
Church." so called, promises to become a
blight, as it is already disgrace, to our
whole country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28

Mr.. G. p. HUNTEGToN, the railroad
magnate, who is generally believed by
the millions of people in this country who
have to work for their living, to have Sc
cured the bulk of his wealth by Jake
Sharp methods, is, we fear, about to fall
on evil days in his old age. The press has
spotted, and the Pacific railway commits
sion will soon investigate, him. The clean,
moral sentiment of the nation has been
immensely cheered and strengthened by
the Just fate of Sharp, and if insolsnt
old Huntington, with his half hundred
millions, can be fairly proved to have
succeeded in his lodgings by buying leg
islators, then convicted and sent to states
prison, it would be the grandest stroke of
business of this decade, and do more to
purify this country and make men hon
est than preaching and moralizing with
out end.
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MALIGNERs OF THE SOUTH.

In tho New York Tribune of last Sun
day appeared the following interview with
man calling himself Capt. A. S. Carpen-
ter, of Illinois:
81 have been tender mouthed about the
south for four or five years. thought it
was about time for us to stop what they
called the 'bloody-shirt' cry-to let up on
them, in other words. But heard enough
talk in Texas among the southerners there
to convince me that the old spirit of the
Confederacy is as much alive to-day as it
was when they fred on Fort Sumter.
They are not asserting that they will
fight, because they have learned pretty
good lesson about fighting; but they in
tend to make their fight just the same and
score their point if they can without any
appeal to arms. One fellow
said to me, at the hotel
where 1 was stopping at Galveston, that if
President Cleveland would stand by his
order the people of the south would go up
to Washington and take the flags whether
or not there was opposition from the
north. You scratch a genuine southern
man on his back on the subject of Sc
cesslon, and he is as much of secession
list to-day as if he had not appealed to the
arbltrament of war on that question and
been whipped at it. have come home
from there thoroughly determined to
wave the bloody shirt and denounce
southern methods and views until all the
secession is trOunced out of these fellows
in one way or another. 1t is they who
Haunt the bloody shirt and not the people
of the north"
That this valiant captain, by civil or
military right it matters not, is member
of the G. A. R., after the approved fash
ion of Fairchild, is positively proved
not only by the style of his language
but by his loose handling of the
truth. If his Galveston acquaintance ever
existed ether than in the rawlings of his
biased imagination, he is stamped a ia
natic as wild and irresponsible as either
futile or Fairchild-which said exhausts
the question. And that the south should
be judged by the ranting of such an one
is too manifestly unjust proposition to
brook a refutation.
The whole statement of this so-called
Captain is on par with his quotation
from his sweet Galveston friend. Seces-
sion is eternally dead in the south-not
because it has been "trounced out of
these fellows"-but because that question
was finally settled by the outcome
of the war, and as patriotic Ameri-
can citizens the people of the south
have universally and ungrudgingly given
their assent to that decision and have
heartily lent themselves to the task of up
building vast, powerful and reunited
nation. There is not class of people on
this continent who would more valiantly
fight for the union than the southerners,
there is not more loyal or brave state in
the union than Texas. And all statements
to the contrary are lies as black as the
heart of him who utters them-this to the
Captain and the journal that published
his interview with such rejoicing. Now
let him wave his bloody shirt at will.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28

They have a second edition of Ireland
in Taylor county, Kentucky, at present.
United States officials went there to sell
out peoples property to pay bond tax.
They were boycotted. The hotels wouldn't
let them enter. They camped in the court
house yard, and next day were sued for
$1,000 damages for so camping. All the
stores in the county town closed up, and
stock was driven to other counties. Uncle
sam may get the best of it, but he will be
worried before he does.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28

President CLEyELAND's marvellous luck
was never better illustrated than when his
special train met with serious accident
the other dag, the engineer killed and he
didn't get even jolt. The democratic
party will hang on to this man of close
calls, who always comes out ahead; and,
although his relations with the G. A. r.
seem tri1e strained, even that circum-
stance, which seemed at first untoward, is
working around to his advantage, and the
g. A. R., from being clustering aggres-
sor, has, to its establishment and disgust,
been placed on the defensive by the en-
lightened of the entire country. Aiming
to down the president, that organization
has itself received black eye and forced
upon the attention of all who had not rec
ognized them before the conspicuous
merits of the democratic president. The
luck of that man Cleveland beats the
deyil"-and Blaine-and is now beating
the Grand Army of the Republic.
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MARVELLOUS PROGRESS OF TEXAS.

Those citizens Of Texas who never
monkey with statistics have little real con-
ception of the long and steady strides of
this state towards wealth, prosperity,
power and greatness.
Figures never lie, and the following,
from the official record of the state comp
troller's Office, giving the total taxable
wealth of Texas, from 1871 to 1887, will
show our progress better than any mere
words.
The taxable wealth of Texas, at various
period7, was officially as follows:
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AUSTIN, TEXAS, June %, 1887.

Ed. Bee: Since President Cleveland's
suggestion in reference to the return to
the various states of the captured flags in
the custody of the war department at
Washington, the northern republican
press, in conjunction with such men as j.
b. Foraker and John Sherman have re-
opened their batteries in vicious attack
on the south. In order to show you how
the people of our section feel and talk of
their brethren of the north, 1 send you
copy of The AUSTIN STATESMAN, contain
ing the speech of Governor Ross, as de-
livered by him at the reunion
of Hoods brigade i'll our ely on
the 9th inst. His sentiments are
those of every man in this section with
whom l have had the privilege of talking,
or to whom l have listened. What a con-
trast to the feelings of some of our north
ern friends. would be pleased to see in
the Bee, of which 1 am daily reader, a
portion at least of the speech of Governor
Ross, that friends in Toledo and vicinity
may learn in truth and in fact what our
sentiments and feelings really are, and not
be entirely guided by such professional
politicians and prevarications, such as the
Hon. land would-be president) John Sher-
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GOVERNOR ROSS SPEECH.
It IS Quoted IN the North Against
Bloody Shirt Howlers.

Following is taken from the Toledo,
Ohio, Bee, of the 9th inst. In the edi-
torial columns of the Bee, Governor Ross
speech is spoken of as evidence of Texas
loyalty and devotion to the old flag, and
in striking contrast to the wavers of the
bloody shirt.
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